What's Included

Free MicroStrategy Suite

MicroStrategy Suite is a powerful free Mobile and Business Intelligence solution that gives organizations the ultimate flexibility to design good-looking dashboards, build mobile apps or conduct visual data discovery. It is perfect solution as it completely scales as your needs expand. The software suite supports any data source including Amazon Redshift, HADOOP, SAP BW, Salesforce.com, Microsoft Analysis Services, Essbase and IBM TM1. With Free online support, training and perpetual license for up to 10 users to use forever, MicroStrategy Suite will help you fulfill your mobile, business intelligence and reporting needs. Using MicroStrategy's Business Intelligence Platform, Anyone can create perfect dashboards with stunning visualizations, explore dynamic reports to investigate performance at every level, graph data instantly, drill into areas of concern, an, export information into useful formats like spreadsheets giving full transparency and control. Powerful analytics provided with the platform give organizations an edge benefiting from statistics and other advanced analyses that yield new critical business insights. Developers can easily leverage the powerful yet straightforward development environment. MicroStrategy's hallmark in administration is key to successful enterprise deployments requiring little maintenance, reducing IT costs and allowing IT staff to focus on delivering additional business.

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Usage Instructions

When you first launch the instance, you will see a 'README' icon that will guide you through the activation process. MicroStrategy will email you the license key for 10 users immediately after registering.Note: In order to use Amazon Redshift you must download and install the Postgres Drivers. You will need to perform the following steps to get your MicroStrategy instance is running:1. Use the One Click install in Marketplace to create the EC2 instance.2. Remote Desktop to the instance(see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/LaunchingAndUsingInstancesWindows.html).3. Download and install the 32 bit Postgres drivers. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/gsg/before-you-begin.html...

When you first launch the instance, you will see a 'README' icon that will guide you through the activation process. MicroStrategy will email you the license key for 10 users immediately after registering.Note: In order to use Amazon Redshift you must download and install the Postgres Drivers. You will need to perform the following steps to get your MicroStrategy instance is running:

1. Use the One Click install in Marketplace to create the EC2 instance.

5. Follow the instructions displayed on the instance to obtain a license and activate your MicroStrategy Suite.

Support Details

Free MicroStrategy Suite

Included in your MicroStrategy Reporting Suite license is the ability for two support liaisons to receive email support for 60 days. Also included is access to MicroStrategy's knowledgebase during the time you use our software.

AWS Infrastructure

AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.Learn more

Very easy to get started, wish it cost less.

MicroStrategy package is 5 star
AWS is 3 star for cost, needs to be less expensive.
AWS is 5 start for convenience. Easy setup and insanely quick time to get started when compared with traditional in-house corporate provisioning of a server.